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From: JCQ on 6 Jul 2010 15:44 Watching the Uruguay Netherlands match. 4 close offsides calls and alll 4 wrong so far. This sport at least at the world cup level really needs some form of technology to take over and help get it right.
From: |2ay Davies on 6 Jul 2010 16:32 JCQ wrote: > Watching the Uruguay Netherlands match. 4 close offsides calls and > alll 4 wrong so far. This sport at least at the world cup level really > needs some form of technology to take over and help get it right. What's the use of having an offside rule if it can NOT be properly reinforced? It's pathetic, really.
From: Starcade on 6 Jul 2010 16:34 On Jul 6, 1:32 pm, "|2ay Davies" <RayDav...(a)email.com> wrote: > JCQ wrote: > > Watching the Uruguay Netherlands match. 4 close offsides calls and > > alll 4 wrong so far. This sport at least at the world cup level really > > needs some form of technology to take over and help get it right. > > What's the use of having an offside rule if it can NOT be properly > reinforced? It's pathetic, really. Guys, you're not getting the point. This is Sepp Blatter's FIFA we're talking about. He's probably already got the trophy presentation planned, including who gets it. Mike
From: Bob on 6 Jul 2010 17:36 JCQ wrote: > Watching the Uruguay Netherlands match. 4 close offsides calls and > alll 4 wrong so far. This sport at least at the world cup level really > needs some form of technology to take over and help get it right. "close offside calls" are the key words here. It's likely that ARs often can't tell the difference anyway. I don't see the need to change the method just because "close calls" aren't called the right way when most can't even agree with the help of replay.
From: HASM on 6 Jul 2010 18:19
"Bob" <Bob(a)Bob.com> writes: > "close offside calls" are the key words here. It's likely that ARs often > can't tell the difference anyway. I don't see the need to change the > method just because "close calls" aren't called the right way when most > can't even agree with the help of replay. Strange :-) I'm in totally agreement with Bob on this. It's offside when I whistle, I used to tell the players :-) And players know that close calls go either way, throw a tantrum and accept it. Technology may help disallowing awarded goals that were clearly offside, it's starts to be a bit doubtful that they would help awarding a disallowed goal as the defenders could claim they saw the flag go up and stopped playing (unless technology gets rid of the AR), and would just introduce delays when used in otherwise inconsequential plays changing the way the game is played. Some players have an incredibly fast first step. I wonder how they decide when to freeze the frame and shade the field to show the potential offside positions, and whether it is done real time or slow motion, by someone looking at a frame by frame replay. Probably much better than what an AR can do, but still a hard job. -- HASM |